hey there welcome to Farm Craft many of
you know I recently bought this boom
lift and it has just been an awesome
addition to the farm I've had to do
quite a bit of work to get it fully
operational again but since then I've
been able to use it for trimming limbs
that are difficult to reach
taking down dead trees
working on my porch
even cleaning my gutters
I mean this thing is just awesome
here I'm using it to work on a barn that
has a really difficult to reach area
I'm only like 20 feet
yeah I know I should have a harness on
see if I can go out any further
no you won't telescope anymore I'm gonna
have to
I think I can reach it
and it was right at this point that I
thought maybe the lift wasn't such a
great idea after all
we'll come back to this
you know that's not the only bad day
I've had with the lift
one day I came out to start it and some
idiot had left the ignition on
and of course the battery was Stone dead
so I go around to take a look at the
battery
connections look okay I wanted to use
the lift so rather than waiting for the
battery to charge I figured I'd swap it
out for one that's already charged I was
actually going to use it to shoot some
Drone footage to do a thumbnail
so with it running now I headed up
I got up about 50 feet and shut it down
so that I could do my Drone footage
I got some good Drone footage look at
the fall color I love those red trees
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but then well we have a problem
it won't start nothing
and I've got this aux power that should
let me down
but it's not working either
oh boy and I am here alone
see how many cars are down there
yeah none
my truck back there
looks like I'm getting out by alternate
means
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my drone remote with me so that I can
land the Drone once I get down
I could land it now before I repel but
then I won't have any footage of
rappelling how fun is that
all right I am now on Rappel
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that's quite a drop
well
that's not something you do every day
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I used to be a really Avid rock climber
I still climb some so I'm very
comfortable rappelling but there's
something intimidating about repelling
out of that as opposed to repelling on
the side of a cliff I don't know why
it's just a little unfamiliar Maybe
you're repelling into into open space
and
there's nothing solid around you even
the basket shakes maybe that's it I
don't know
it's fun it's fun but it's a little
different than repelling off a cliff
foreign to check the battery and it
didn't look like it had a bad connection
but after wiggling the cables it worked
again the battery wasn't dead
yeah just a bad connection I'm not quite
sure why that did that all right now
that I have that battery hooked back up
I should be able to
go to ground
and hopefully start it
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that actually taught me something
because the battery is kind of the uh
the common link I needed the battery to
start the engine up there and I needed
the battery to run the aux pump and
because the battery became disconnected
I was stuck damn good thing I had a rope
with me or I I did have my phone so I
could have called someone for help and
for the record these valves here so you
open valve number one open valve number
two that does the telescope cylinder and
allow it to retract and lower you
control the speed by opening and closing
allowed gravity to pull the telescope
cylinder in
and then so valve three will then lower
the Boom and then you close all the
valves and you're back to normal
operation so there is a way down I just
would have had to call someone and get
help so it wouldn't have been the end of
the world but uh I'm glad that I was
able to get out of that pickle on my own
well that was fun
you know what was really interesting
about that is this is that was the first
time I brought this rope up there and
it's because of one of the members of
the audience they commented that they
always bring a rope a harness and a dry
bag
up in the left with him just for that
reason and I thought yeah that's a great
idea uh you know I had the harness
anyway but
um that was the first time I actually
had a rope with me
and I used it
safe to say I am always going to have a
rope with me in the future
I can't recall who left that comment but
thank you that was helpful to say the
least
by the way those are my wrenching pants
they're actually clean believe it or not
so that was kind of a close call on the
lift but it turned out okay not really
on the same level as this
so what happened here well I have a
little confession to make I haven't been
entirely honest with you
you see this Barn right here
well it's actually not right here I put
that in
let me just play the whole clip for you
yeah
I staged the whole thing
hope you'll forgive me my daughter and
her friends were over and we couldn't
resist putting the Boom Lift out over
the pond and I couldn't resist trolling
my YouTube audience what happens when
you mix heavy machinery with a country
pond
you get a redneck amusement park
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